Today’s live text updates
And waiting for me at home: my friend Lewis Baston’s book about… borders 🙂
And the front cover is the France-Spain border at Cerbère that I cycled past during #CrossBorderRail 2022 due to a French train strike
Third stop: Nuits-sous-Ravières
A tired Jon gets off, unfolds the Birdy one final time on this trip, and cycles home. And will be head-butted by Josette 🐈 within 30 seconds of getting there!
Second stop: Montbard
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, gets off and is incarnated as a statue in front of the station
First stop: Les Laumes Alésia
Vitalstatistix and Winesanspirix get off, and get lost trying to find Alésia
TER 91356
16:33 Dijon - Nuits-sous-Ravières 17:20
Distance: 89.4km
Average speed: 114km/h
3 stops:
Les Laumes-Alésia
Montbard
Nuits-Sous-Ravières
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#10/47.5251/4.6198
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 64 of 64
TER 91356
16:33 Dijon - Nuits-sous-Ravières 17:20
SNCF
Train type: Alstom Coradia EMU, 6 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (needs a free reservation)
🦽: ✅ (step free if station allows, Dijon does, Nuits doesn’t)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
Ah. Now they’re warning us of dangers of not keeping an eye on our bags at all times - while stopped at stations
We’re in Dole Ville
A high point of petty criminality I tell you!
Also it’s the first time I’m on a TGV Lyria for years
Does this have any advantages over a regular TGV?
They bring a coffee to your seat in first class, but honestly 🤷♂️
Interrail reservations on it cost a fortune 😡 (€39! Who do they think they are? Eurostar?)
They annoy you less about labelling your luggage, so that’s good 🙂
But overall 🤷♂️ - it’s like a TGV with a grey interior
Vallorbe 🇨🇭
2 trains an hour, every hour, to Lausanne and beyond
Frasne 🇫🇷
5 trains a *day* to get to Dole, the nearest larger town
And the infra France side is fine - single track electrified line, decent speeds
And why this train?
It’s one of only 4 a day each way that crosses the Vallorbe 🇨🇭 - Labergement-Sainte-Marie 🇫🇷 border, and I’ve never taken this line
Given the amount of France - Switzerland cross border commuting it’s poor. But it’s France, so it’s normal
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Today’s introduction and summary videos
All the #CrossBorderRail daily videos are on my Peertube channel
Today’s photos
Today’s background
Arrival of the night train, and then it’s a quick detour to the only Switzerland-France border I have not investigated before finally returning to Ravières.
Borders examined on this day:
Nendeln 🇱🇮 – Tisis 🇦🇹
Buchs SG 🇨🇭 – Schaan-Vaduz 🇱🇮
Vallorbe 🇨🇭 – Labergement-Sainte-Marie 🇫🇷
Distance covered:
1281.4km
Transport modes:
🚆 4
Today’s route
The full zoomable and scrollable map, including today’s route, is on uMap here.
